Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers in Massachusetts
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$45,653
after federal, FICA and Massachusetts tax
Tax takes
$11,617
20.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,178
Massachusetts costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Massachusetts — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$57,270
Kept after tax
$45,653
Worth in national money
$42,178
State rank
8
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Massachusetts pays this job a middle wage of $57,270, ranking 8 of 50 states and sitting about 19.79% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 323 among 485 occupations Massachusetts publishes pay for.
- Massachusetts is an expensive state, and the adjusted figure shows it. From $57,270 the take-home is $45,653; in national-average money that behaves like $42,178. The average comes to $57,900, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Massachusetts's median for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers is $57,270, about 19.79% above the national figure and 8 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 323 of 485 in Massachusetts places computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Take-home for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers in Massachusetts, on $57,270, is $45,653; deflated by the state's price level, $42,178. ⚠️ The deflator is statewide, so it understates the erosion in the state's metropolitan areas and overstates it outside them. At $57,900 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $39,900 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,270 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,500 |
| This salary | $57,270 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Massachusetts | $45,653 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,196 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$7,419 |
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $54,104 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$8,973 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 108 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Massachusetts earn less than $57,270. The published range is $39,900 up to $75,500, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Massachusetts's $45,653, worked from $57,270. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 323 of 485.
- Two cautions on $42,178, the adjusted value of that $57,270 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Massachusetts. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 323 of 485 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers in Massachusetts the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $39,900 to $75,500. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Massachusetts take-home of $45,653, on $57,270 for work ranking 323 of 485 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 323 of 485 in the state.
- This $42,178 adjusted figure, worked from $57,270, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 323 of 485 in the state. The occupation ranks 323 of 485 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $39,900 and the top tenth $75,500, so most people doing this work in Massachusetts sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Massachusetts run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $42,178 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Where does the difference between the wage and my paycheck go?
Three of them are federal and one is not. After income tax, Social Security, Medicare and Massachusetts's own levy, $45,653 remains.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($39,900 to $75,500) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Massachusetts rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Massachusetts's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $42,178 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
What accounts for the gap between gross wage and take-home here?
Take-home of $45,653 reflects federal income tax, OASDI, Medicare and Massachusetts income tax for a single filer with no adjustments. The state layer is levied in addition to the federal one; only its rate and base differ between states.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.